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To: sportutegrl

It is hereby decreed that the digging utensile formerly known as a spade shall henceforth be refered to as a shovel.

That is all.


20 posted on 07/31/2006 6:40:54 AM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: cripplecreek

Actually - and someone correct me on this - isn't a spade and a shovel two different instruments?


22 posted on 07/31/2006 6:43:48 AM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: cripplecreek

Yeah, I enjoy calling a shovel a shovel!


32 posted on 07/31/2006 6:48:55 AM PDT by RexBeach ("Their is no substitute for victory." - Douglas MacArthur)
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To: cripplecreek
It is hereby decreed that the digging utensile formerly known as a spade shall henceforth be refered to as a shovel.

And let's not even go near "hoe".

37 posted on 07/31/2006 6:51:23 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Rabid ethnicist.)
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To: cripplecreek

What about the other diging utensil, the hoe? It shall henceforth be called...?


52 posted on 07/31/2006 7:03:01 AM PDT by ladyjane
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